The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion

By Thomas R. Stauffer

Conflicts in the Middle East have been very costly to the U.S., as well as to the rest of the world. An estimate of the total cost to the U.S. alone of instability and conflict in the region?which emanates from the core, Israeli-Palestinian conflict?amounts to close to $3 trillion, measured in 2002 dollars...